Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts

26th June 1754

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26th June 1754


THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, &c.

BY virtue of the King's commission of the peace, Oyer and Terminer, and jail-delivery of Newgate, held before the right honourable Thomas Rawlison< no role > , esq ; lord-mayor of the city of London , lord chief justice Willes, Mr. justice Dennison, Mr. baron Smythe, William Moreton< no role > , esq; recorder, and others of His Majesty's justices of Oyer and Terminer, for the city of London, and jail-delivery of Newgate, for the county of Middlesex, holden at Justice-hall in the Old-Bailey , on Thursday the 30th , Friday the 31st of May , and Saturday the 1st of June , in the 27th year of His Majesty's Reign, Thomas Wommersley< no role > , and George Watson< no role > , were capitally convicted, and received sentence of death accordingly.

Their behaviour has been since conviction very much as became men, expecting the time of their dissolution, and their attendance at prayers constant and devout. On Friday the 21st instant , Mr. Recorder attended His Majesty with the report of two malefactors; when he was pleased to order them, Thomas Wommersley< no role > , and George Watson< no role > , for execution, on Wednesday the 26th instant .




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